Local History, Local Conservatism, and Local Pharmacies
“How Local History Can Save America: The Crucifixion and Resurrection of Frederick Douglass.” John W. Miller recommends an essay about the place where Frederick Douglass fought...
Trades, the Digital Public Square, and Conservative Environmentalism
“Arguing with Success.” Rory Groves writes about how his dissatisfaction with the business model of the tech industry led him on a quest for...
Localism and the Church
As a student of Christian history and an off-and-on conservative, I continue to be confused by the combination of Roman Catholic identity and Front...
Holly Ordway On Tolkien’s Modern Reading
Holly Ordway is Cardinal Francis George Fellow of Faith and Culture of the Word on Fire Institute. Her new book, the first from the...
Seeds, Meritocracy, and Kazuo Ishiguro
“Words and Flesh: Pastoring in a Post-truth World.” In this wise essay, Kurt Armstrong begins with Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography...
Right to Repair, Outrage, and Defining Progress
“John Deere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied.” Jason Koebler and Matthew Gault investigate to see whether John Deere...
Artist Elisabeth Deane & The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts
My guest this episode is Elisabeth Deane, a talented artist living and working in London with her husband Jethro Buck, also an artist.
On a...
Local Democracy, Resilient Agriculture, and the Classics
“Vermont’s Superpower, Revealed: The Ability to Practice Local Democracy.” Susan Clark writes about the formative role that Vermont’s annual town meetings play in training...
Tech Critique, Simone Weil, and Visceral Lending
We've got a cover and table of contents for the spring issue of Local Culture. If you're a subscriber, you can expect to get...
Friendship, GameStop, and James Herriot
"Eric Gill and the Integrity of Work." In a new preface to an edition of Gill's writings, Wendell Berry identifies the endemic flaw of...